The Balcombe Street Gang (part2/2): Episode 193

UK True Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It was in August 1974, that the first members of the IRA Active Service Unit later named 'The Balcombe Street Gang' touched down in Heathrow. Between October 1974 and December 1975, they carried out at least 40 bomb and gun attacks in and around London, leading to one description of them as 'the most violent, ruthless and highly trained unit ever sent to Britain by the Provisional IRA.

In the concluding episode of this two-part story, we continue to tell the stories of those who were the victims of this gang, until their capture in December 1975.

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0:00.0	Have you ever had a truly awful, horrible work colleague?
0:06.6	I have.
0:08.1	Her name is Roach.
0:10.2	Yes, like the insect.
0:12.6	It's as disgusting as she is.
0:15.1	The thought of her makes my stomach roll and my skin burn.
0:19.7	Roach.
0:20.7	Salo.
0:21.7	Salon.
0:22.7	A vampire.
0:23.7	A leech.
0:24.7	Taking whatever she can from me.
0:27.5	Taking over my poetry.
0:29.5	Swallowing scraps of my past like a vulture.
0:32.6	Stealing whatever takes her fancy.
0:35.4	And I have to spend nearly every day stuck inside this bookstore with her.
0:41.2	Watching her pull apart the true crime section and savor it like a delicacy.
0:46.9	But she doesn't know my secret.
0:49.0	And I'll never let her have it.
0:52.1	Meet me, Laura, and my colleague Roach, in Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater.
0:59.1	Hello and welcome to episode 193 of the UK True Crime Podcast.
1:06.3	I'm Adam.
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